My busted comuter wasn't that busted, in actual fact. It turns out that our small-ish, malevolent cat had chomped a couple of key wires in the cable that hooks the hard drive to everything else. Currently, it iskind of jerry-rigged, convincing my computer to run it's sole hard-drive as a “slave” drive, using the side of the cable that was un-marred by cat-tooth devistation.
And so,let this be a lesson to all of us…don't leave the side of your computer case open if you live with evil, striped, chompy furbags.
*is going to buy a new cable after payday Friday*